Food Marketing Policy Center Research Reports

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71: Eco-Labels for Credence Attributes: The Case of Shade-Grown Coffee

Bruce A. Larson

70: Price Discrimination in the Context of Vertical Differentiation: An Application to Canadian Wheat Exports

Nathalie Lavoie

69: Is Protection for Sale in U.S. Food Industries?

Rigoberto Lopez and Ibrahima Hathie

68: Imperfect Competition and Total Factor Productivity Growth in U.S. Food Processing

Azzeddine Azzam, Elena Lopez and Rigoberto Lopez

67: Price Transmission in Differentiated Product Market Channels: A Study of the Boston Fluid Milk Market and the North East Dairy Compact

Tirtha Dhar and Ronald Cotterill

66: An Empirical Assessment of Endogeneity Issues In Demand Analysis for Differentiated Products

Tirtha Dhar, Jean-Paul Chavas and Brian W. Gould

65: An Econometric Analysis of Brand Level Strategic Pricing Between Coca Cola and Pepsi Inc

Tirtha Dhar, Jean-Paul Chavas, Ronald Cotterill and Brian W. Gould

64: The Predatory Impacts of the Ahold/Pathmark Offer to Buy the Big V ShopRite Supermarket Chain

Ronald Cotterill

63: An Antitrust Economic Analysis of Stop & Shop's Proposed Acquisition of the Big V Shop Rite Supermarket Chain

Ronald Cotterill

62: When is Concentration Beneficial?

Carmen Liron-Espana and Rigoberto Lopez

61: The Impact of Imports on Price-Cost Margins: An Empirical Illustration

Rigoberto Lopez and Elena Lopez

60: Market Power and/or Efficiency: An Application to U.S. Food Processing

Rigoberto Lopez, Azzeddine Azzam and Carmen Liron-Espana

59: Campaign Contributions and Agricultural Subsidies

Rigoberto Lopez

58: Trends in University Ag-Biotech Patent Production

Bradford L. Barham, Jeremy Foltz and Kwansoo Kim

56: A Dynamic Count Data Analysis of University Ag-Biotech Patents

Jeremy Foltz, Kwansoo Kim and Bradford L. Barham

55: The Adoption and Profitability of rbST on Connecticut Dairy Farms

Jeremy Foltz and Hsiu-Hui Chang

54: Modeling Coupon Values for Ready-To-Eat Breakfast Cereals

Gregory K. Price, John Connor and Joan R. Fulton

53: Dynamic Explanations of Industry Structure and Performance

Ronald Cotterill

52: VERTICAL COORDINATION IN THE AGRO-FOOD INDUSTRY AND CONTRACT FARMING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TURKEY AND THE USA

Erkan Rehber

51: Market Share and Price Setting Behavior For Private Labels and National Brands

Ronald Cotterill, William P. Putsis and Ravi Dhar

50: Share, Price and Category Expenditure-- Geographic Market Effects and Private Labels

William P. Putsis and Ronald Cotterill

49: Continuing Concentration in Food Industries Globally: Strategic Challenges to an Unstable Status Quo

Ronald Cotterill

48: Continuing Concentration in the U.S.: Strategic Challenges to an Unstable Status Quo

Ronald Cotterill

47: Post Merger Price Conduct: A Case Study of Pricing in Connecticut Markets After the 1996 Royal Ahold-Stop & Shop Merger

Ronald Cotterill, Tirtha Dhar and Andrew W. Franklin

46: An Antitrust Economic Analysis of the Proposed Acquisition of Supermarkets General Holdings Corporation be Ahold Acquisition Inc

Ronald Cotterill

45: Asymmetry in Farm-Retail Price Transmission in the Northeastern Fluid Milk Market

Mathieu Frigon, Maurice Doyon and Robert F.J. Romain

44: Assessing the Competitive Interaction Between Private Labels and National Brands

Ronald Cotterill, William P. Putsis and Ravi Dhar

43: Incorporating Flexible Demand Systems in Empirical Models of Market Power

Everett Peterson and Ronald Cotterill

42: Beyond Illinois Brick: The Law and Economics of Cost Pass-Through in the ADM Price Fixing Case

Ronald Cotterill, Leonard Egan and William Buckhold

41: Empirical Analysis of Competitive Interaction in Food Product Categories

William P. Putsis

40: Testing the Theory: Vertical Strategic Interaction and Demand Functional Form

Ronald Cotterill and William P. Putsis

39: Estimation of Cost Pass Through to Michigan Consumers in the ADM Price Fixing Case

Ronald Cotterill

38: Towards a Post-Structural View of Competition: Three Cases of Horizontal Merger

Michael H. Lubatkin, William S. Schulze, Avinash Mainkar and Ronald Cotterill

37: Measuring Market Power in the Ready-To-Eat Cereal Industry

Aviv Nevo

36: Mandatory vs. Voluntary Approaches to Food Safety

Kathleen Segerson

35: An Econometric Analysis of the Demand for RTE Cereal: Product Market Definition and Unilateral Market Power Effects

Ronald Cotterill and Lawrence E. Haller

34: Foodborne Illness in the Elderly Population of the United States, 1987-1993

Thomas E. Steahr

33: On the Competitive Interaction Between Private Label and Branded Grocery Products

Ronald Cotterill, Ravi Dhar and William P. Putsis

32: Measuring Market Power Effects in Differentiated Product Industries: An Application to the Soft Drink Industry

Ronald Cotterill, Andrew W. Franklin and Li Yu Ma

31: Evaluating Traditional Share-Price and Residual Demand Measures of Market Power in the Catsup Industry

Lawrence E. Haller and Ronald Cotterill

30: The Effects of the Beatrice-Conagra Merger on Brand-level Marketing Strategies

Lawrence E. Haller

29: Market Power and the Demsetz Quality Critique: An Evaluation for Food Retailing

Ronald Cotterill and C. David Harper

28: Global Competitiveness in the Beer Industry: A Case Study

Subhash C. Jain

27: Global Competitiveness in the Bottled Water Industry: A Case Study

Subhash C. Jain

26: Pricing and Market Strategies in the National Branded Cheese Industry

Andrew W. Franklin and Ronald Cotterill

25: Concentration-Price Relations in Regional Fed Cattle Markets

Bruce W. Marion and Frederick E. Geithman

24: Quantity Surcharges on Groceries

Jagdish Agrawal, Pamela E. Grimm and Narasimhan Srinivasan

23: Market Strategies in Branded Dairy Product Markets

Ronald Cotterill and Lawrence E. Haller

22: Noncooperative Game Theory: A Review with Potential Applications to Agricultural Markets

Richard J. Sexton

21: Advertising Strategies by Agricultural Cooperatives in Branded Food Products, 1967 to 1987

Richard T. Rogers

20: Food Quality: Safety, Nutrition, and Labeling

Carol S. Kramer and Julie Caswell

19: An Analysis of Local Market Concentration Levels and Trends in the U.S. Grocery Retailing Industry

Andrew W. Franklin and Ronald Cotterill

18: Broilers -- Differentiating A Commodity

Richard T. Rogers

17: Orange Juice: A Private Label Product for the Nineties?

James A. Zellner

16: Branded Product Marketing Strategies in the Cottage Cheese Market: Cooperative versus Proprietary Firms

Lawrence E. Haller

15: The Empirical Analysis of Oligopsony in Agricultural Markets: Residual Supply Estimation in California's Processing Tomato Market

Catherine Durham

14: Food Retailing: Mergers, Leveraged Buyouts, and Performance

Ronald Cotterill

13: A Response to the Federal Trade Commission/Anderson Critique of Structure-Performance Studies in Grocery Retailing

Ronald Cotterill

12: The Impact of Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives on Market Performance in U.S. Food Manufacturing Industries for 1982

Lisa M. Petraglia and Richard T. Rogers

11: Determinants of Entry: A Study of Leading U.S. Supermarket Chain Entry Patterns

Ronald Cotterill and Lawrence E. Haller

10: Economic Analysis of the Proposed Dairy Income Enhancement Program

Ronald Cotterill, Don C. Pinkerton and Lawrence E. Haller

9: A Perspective on Valuing Changes in Health Risk

Ann Fisher

8: Risk Characterization for Food Additives and Contaminants

Josephine A. Mauskopf

7: An Examination of the Connecticut Dairy Inspection Program

Gary V. Johnson

6: Changing Connecticut's Dairy Regulations: Implications for Performance in the Northeast Dairy Industry

Ronald Cotterill and Don C. Pinkerton

5: The Economics of Information

Dennis Carlton and Jeffrey Perloff

4: Consumer Preferences: A Guide to Connecticut Apple Marketing

Robert L. Leonard and James J. Wadsworth

3: Private Initiatives for Rural Development: Ideological Cop Out or Engine for Progress

Ronald Cotterill

2: Mergers and Concentration in Food Retailing: Implications for Performance and Merger Policy

Ronald Cotterill

1: Optimal Public Policies to Minimize Risks of Genotoxic Harms: A Comparison of the Efficiency of Administrative Agency Regulation and Tort Liability

Gary V. Johnson, Thomas S. Ulen and Juha M. Alho